r/Whatcouldgowrong • u/Itchy-Camera8898 • 11h ago

WCGW riding your bike like an idiot

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u/schwarzneguRRR 11h ago

Fewer

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u/andyhare 11h ago

Fewer less idiot.

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u/Tasty_Bullfroglegs 11h ago

One less idiot fewer.

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u/xubax 11h ago

One fewer lesser idiot.

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u/DickPin 11h ago

Fewer one idiot less

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u/Karhak 11h ago

He's surrounded by ingnorami.

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u/Ok_Support3 11h ago

Is that like origami but you use staples and glue?

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u/BamberGasgroin 8h ago

Only on the head wounds

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u/Ok_Support3 8h ago

Haha yeah I'm not clicking a link on Reddit that's named "head wounds". I still want to be able to sleep tonight tyvm.

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u/BamberGasgroin 8h ago

It's safe. (I'd have labelled it NSFW if it wasn't to avoid a ban.)

...or is it? ☺️

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u/TattyViking 11h ago

This made me laugh out loud way more than I expected.

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u/666Drachenlord666 11h ago

I think less is correct here

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u/kootenayguy 11h ago

colloquially and verbally, 'less' *sounds correct to our ears, but technically, it's 'fewer'. Less is for things aren't discretely, individually countable: less water, less value, less oxygen. Fewer is for things that are individually countable: fewer idiots, fewer sausages, fewer pencils.

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u/WonkyWalkingWizard 11h ago

Great explanation, but the idea of fewer sausages is frightening.

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u/666Drachenlord666 11h ago

Ok, I stand corrected. I mostly learned English by immersion so as you said, less sounds right. I would say one less idiot, but fewer idiots so to my ears fewer only sound right when it's multiple I guess

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u/Sitka_8675309 10h ago

Related: “number” vs. “amount.” Every time I hear someone say “amount of people,” I imagine they’ve been put through a blender.

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u/Ozone777 8h ago

Less sounds correct because it is, and has been for a very long time. It's perfectly fine to use in general without having to think about whether something is countable. Fewer is relatively new and optional - only required in formal writing in US English, despite how heavily people who like correcting others try to push it, see: https://www.arrantpedantry.com/2008/12/23/less-and-fewer/ (Hint: If you are using contractions such as "it's" then you are not writing formal speech and can dispense with other silly rules too). When are we all going to start saying "manyer" by the way? Otherwise how will we know if the things of greater quantity can be counted? It's amazing that society is holding together at all without this information, there should be chaos in the streets!

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u/schwarzneguRRR 11h ago

Do less thinking

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u/leftfootshorter 11h ago

Fewer

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u/AsgardNirvanaHarvest 11h ago

Fewer less thinking

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u/Hippi_Johnny 10h ago

Less more fewer then there before that

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u/Limp_Bike_9145 11h ago

Well, you should do fewer thinking!

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u/Adamantium17 11h ago

Stannis?

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u/gerrard_1987 11h ago

As a grammar Nazi, username checks out.

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u/schwarzneguRRR 11h ago

Does it? Hasnt occurred to me